Senior Staff Software Engineer – AI Governance & Platform

Ping Identity Corporation; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 151,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO

Parental Leave

Healthcare options

Retirement Programs

Education Reimbursement

Commuter Offset

Job summary

Ping Identity Corporation in Austin, Texas seeks an experienced Java software engineer to join our AI governance initiatives. You will design, develop, and maintain scalable governance capabilities across leading AI platforms while ensuring security, observability, and performance in a fast-paced enterprise environment.

The role emphasizes leadership, collaboration, and delivering incremental features that strengthen identity governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in Java application development.
• Strong proficiency in Java and object-oriented design principles.
• Experience building scalable, distributed, and resilient applications.
• Strong experience with Gradle for dependency management, build automation, project configuration, and optimizing build processes.
• Good understanding of performance profiling, JVM tuning, memory management, and application optimization.
• Experience troubleshooting dependency issues and optimizing application performance.
• Strong knowledge of concurrent programming, multithreading, and synchronization.
• Experience with debugging using logs, thread dumps, heap dumps, and profiling tools.
• Familiarity with software design patterns, automated testing, and system integration.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and technical leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain AI agent governance capabilities across AI platforms.
• Prototype and iterate on AI agent capabilities and frameworks.
• Lead with clear requirements, modular design, observability, and code quality.
• Enhance core Identity Governance capabilities including SoD, workflows, and lifecycle management.
• Collaborate with Support and customer-facing teams to resolve issues and improve reliability.
• Monitor AI agent performance, usage, and security across platforms.
• Implement secure AI solutions with proper authentication and least-privilege.
• Contribute to observability with logging, metrics, and compliance.
• Evaluate emerging AI agent platforms and governance tech.
• Document architecture, governance processes, and engineering best practices.

Skills

Java

Object-oriented design

Multithreading

Leadership

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Gradle

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Ping Identity Corporation in Austin, Texas seeks an experienced Java software engineer to join our AI governance initiatives. You will design, develop, and maintain scalable governance capabilities across leading AI platforms while ensuring security, observability, and performance in a fast-paced enterprise environment.

The role emphasizes leadership, collaboration, and delivering incremental features that strengthen identity governance.